http://ak.c.ooyala.com/cacheable/5a2f27624b7042037224b595b9131328/player_v2.swf via techcrunch.com I agree with the commenters that It’s a case of knowing the right people, but still to get acquired in 4 days is silly.
Archive for the ‘Programming’ Category
29 Dec
Tekpub: 4 – Loose Design with Interfaces
Tekpub: 4 – Loose Design with Interfaces. I really like his description of “fancy objects”. Previous versions or ARBO were very fancy indeed. Notes: Pass abilities of objects. Pass around interfaces and not objects. Interfaces should be the smallest possible object. If you have 5+ methods make a new interface.
27 Dec
Windows 7 Shortcuts
Lifehacker.com has a great summary of Windows 7 shortcut keys === Windows Management Win+Home: Clear all but the active window. Win+Space: All windows become transparent so you can see through to the desktop. Win+Up arrow: Maximize the active window. Shift+Win+Up arrow: Maximize the active window vertically. Win+Down arrow: Minimize the window/Restore the window if it’s [...]
22 Dec
ASP.Net Razor and VB
Find a VB syntax reference for ASP.Net Razor is proving difficult. Most Razor samples are C#. This tutorial is the best that I’ve found so far. http://www.asp.net/webmatrix/tutorials/asp-net-web-pages-visual-basic
17 Dec
Delicious to Google Bookmarks the Easy Way
Delicious is going away <sniff>. I have been favoring Google Reader over Delicious for articles recently, so Google Bookmarks seems like the easiest choice. After several false starts I found the right tool for migrating from Delicious to Google. Andy Hitchman create a great bookmarklet that makes the migration trivial. Enjoy: http://andyhitchman.github.com/DeliciousToGoogleBookmarks/
7 Dec
Coefficient of determination – Wikipedia
Coefficient of determination – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://ow.ly/1alvk7
20 Jul
Visio ERD’s Do Not Generate SQL. What??
Yep, Visio 2010 will let you model databases all day long, but when it’s time to generate the SQL you get nothing. I’m checking out a 3rd party open source project by sqlbi that looks promising. It is called “Visio Forward Engineer” and it generates SQL. So far everything looks great, I just want to [...]
2 Feb
No workout today, just programming quotes
“Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems.” – Jamie Zawinski “In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.” Linux is only free if your time has no value – Jamie Zawinski It works on my machine. –Anonymous programmer “There are 10 types of [...]
2 Feb
Best Keyboard Shortcuts for Selecting in Excel
I don’t use Excel full time, and I always for get how to select a large grid of data for pivot tables. I found a great reference over at Microsoft. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/HA010548081033.aspx Press To CTRL+A Select the entire worksheet CTRL+SPACEBAR Select the entire column SHIFT+SPACEBAR Select the entire row F8 Turn on extending a selection by [...]
22 Jan
Nice String Formatting Reference
http://idunno.org/archive/2004/14/01/122.aspx One of the painful things about good old ASP was string formatting, VBScript simply didn’t have anything useful. C# (and VB.Net) do, but MSDN doesn’t provide a quick reference to the formatting options. So here’s a quick reference. To compare string formatting in C# to those in C lets have an example, char szOutput[256]; [...]
